schmidty wrote:Well, I used waiver claims in 2 leagues (one of them really high) on Cole Hamels, because the Cafe seemed convinced that he was so great they'd have to rename the Cy Young award the Cole Hamels award.

i was convinced TurnBlow wouldnt lose his job because he was an All-star and would straighten himself out according to the experts. Needless to say Wise and Cap were picked up 2 days ago in my league when i had absorbed the situation long before.

i think one of the flaws is to always do the "in" things to do according to experts and cafe postsl example hold on to Peavy he's a stud; you know he has tendonitis he sucks every start but you let your team go down the craphole when you could have traded him for real value and probably still can. Anyone who says to keep peavy now (aside from atrocious trade value) is ludicrous. Not a peavy owner but im sure lot of the "experts" will blast me for selling Peavy low.

lastly i dont know if its keeper influence fan influence or what but most rookies do not succeed on being called up. So for non-keepers all this hype about people is uncalled for; this year has been a rare exception with liriano, verlander. How many people have treated cole hamels like he is johan santana giving him a leash that is so uncalled for. I wont lie i fell for the anthony reyes propaganda BUT that was after he 1 hit the wsox on national TV.

so these are the (-)'s as I see them as a non-keeper player but other than these points there is nowhere close to the info and the closer sticky is priceless.

Personally, I never hype anybody until I see them play, minor league stats or a first few good weeks or starts in the show don't mean much. Stats really only tell the truth over time... a month or two means nothing.

johnsamo wrote:Personally, I never hype anybody until I see them play, minor league stats or a first few good weeks or starts in the show don't mean much. Stats really only tell the truth over time... a month or two means nothing.

Says the man who has Jered Weaver pegged as the AL Cy Young and had John Lackey breaking the consecutive innings record.

johnsamo wrote:Personally, I never hype anybody until I see them play, minor league stats or a first few good weeks or starts in the show don't mean much. Stats really only tell the truth over time... a month or two means nothing.

Says the man who has Jered Weaver pegged as the AL Cy Young and had John Lackey breaking the consecutive innings record.

Hilarious!

I also believe a lot of people were burned early by believing in & overhyping Matt Kemp too much and too early.

Tiki Barber's Barber wrote:I think the cafe members should have created threads that said "Pick up Liriano", "Pick up Weaver". Instead there were threads filled with doubters and speculators. Thus, I picked neither up.